I'm looking for some help from people who have built pieces of CastleWorks Ultimate... For another project, I've been converting the moats to TLX format with a 1" grid. I have a couple pieces that work nicely for my purposes, like:

But I'm wondering if I'd be better served making these pieces out of full 6" tiles instead of 3" and hallway tiles. For example, if I had a keep built up on 6" tiles, and I wanted to surround the keep with the moat tiles, does it make sense to have the moat right up against the keep walls with no gap? Or, if the moat pieces were centered on a 6" tile instead, I could have 1.5" of grass on either side of the moat.

I'll try some quick mockups (without foamcore) against some TLX buildings so I can have a better picture of each option. I'm just hoping other people have some insight, or have already been down this road and have some real experience.

I have built the CWU but I never got around to the moat portion of the build. The modular nature in me says that 3" pieces is a good thing, but it is something so commonly used with each other that I can see the use of the 6" option. How many more tiles does it translate to if you were to put both options into this conversion?

I have built the CWU but I never got around to the moat portion of the build. The modular nature in me says that 3" pieces is a good thing, but it is something so commonly used with each other that I can see the use of the 6" option. How many more tiles does it translate to if you were to put both options into this conversion?

Thanks for the feedback. The real concern I have is how it would look or feel to have the moat tiles right up against the building, rather than set off a little bit, maybe by 1" or so. I thought if I used a 6" tile instead of a hallway tile, I'd have that extra room on either side for some grass texture.

There are only really two moat tiles - straight and corner. I'll try a 6" version when I get a chance - I can print draft black and white on plain paper, and not waste any foamcore. I haven't seen many builds with moats around them, probably because they don't have a lot of bang for the buck. A lot of the older builds that might be inspirational aren't showing up in the forum posts anymore.

I might consider just doing a FLAT moat tile. I like the 3-d aspect of it, but it'd be easy enough to simply drop the water texture next to some of the stone texture, then maybe use 1/2 height walls if you want some edges... I'll keep that in the back of my head. People might be more inclined to have moats if they don't *require* custom fiddly bits, but it's unlikely that any of this would be accepted as a kitbash, so I'm not going to kill myself trying to cover all the bases - I'm just going to focus on getting my own selfish builds done

Do the walls on the above come off? Do they insert into the TLX slots?

Maybe you could go with half height walls and then caps for the posts on 3" tiles for the complex version and then make the 6" version not have slots for the walls (due to not lining up to anchor spots) and instead just be flat.

Do the walls on the above come off? Do they insert into the TLX slots?

Nah. They don't come off. I was building them a lot like the originals, and they look kinda neat that way. I guess I was just feeling proud that I managed to get all the geometry right to get the corners to line up and have the height match the overall height of the original pieces. I'll probably build the non-TLX gatehouse piece (which I may then investigate what I can tease out for TLXification), and I wanted it to at least properly fit over the moat piece. Also, while they're a little extra work, they're SUPER simple to cut, edge and glue together, and it's all really sturdy feeling.

Well, since you're bashing it anyway why not just make some 1" or 1.5" grass-textured hallways? That way you still have the modularity and you don't have to redo the moats. While the 1.5" would possibly look a bit odd and not entirely match up to the tiling in the moat itself they would nicely fill in 3" on both sides.

I had burnt myself out on the castle stuff, so I packed it all up and moved on to kitbashing (many of which have been accepted! yay!) and right now I'm challenging myself with the Atlantis set. Regarding the moat pieces... I'm actually pretty happy with the way they are. They store well, even with the bits glued to the tiles, they build very quickly and they're perfectly TLX compatible.

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